God for Harry, England, and a Sandwich

[Bruce Alan Wilson]

No: HPFGUIDX 178923

> Magpie:
> She now understands House Elf psychology differently (however she 
got to that--it's a bit of a leap from her confident freeing of 
elves in OotP to her disinterest in Harry's inheriting one in HBP). 
You've added the part where she's meeting House Elves where they are 
at this point in time and is in the process of doing something else. 
Hermione is repulsed by Elf self-punishment. Whether she's embraced 
House Elf slavedom or just accepted that she can't change it and 
decided Elves should all just have good masters she approves of 
there is nothing in DH that indicates this will be changing in the 
future thanks to Hermione. I knew her feelings about House Elves in 
GoF and OotP because she lectured about it. If she were on a new 
tact of the same idea I expect she would still lecture about it. She 
does seem to have skipped to "I told you so" by HBP, but this is 
bizarre since she herself seems to have never acknowledged that she 
was House Elf Offender #1. <<


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Bruce Alan Wilson

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